On 3 Mar 2011, at 15:47, Philip Taylor (Webmaster, Ret'd) wrote: > > > Peter Davis wrote: > > > I expected this job to complete in a matter of minutes, but it basically > > took 100 times longer than I anticipated. The job uses perhaps a dozen > > PDFs via \includegraphics, but it uses the sames ones over and over > > again. It also uses \textpos to position blocks of text arbitrarily on > > the page. > > > > Can anyone think of reasons why it might be so slow? > > No, but as you have yourself suggested two possible causes, > would it not make sense to eliminate each in turn and see > what effect this has on performance ? If it turns out > to be the \includgraphics then you might want to drop > down to whatever the XeTeX equivalent of PdfTeX's > > \pdfximage > \pdfrefximage > \pdflastximage > > are, and see if this improves things.
How about saving each such graphic in a \box, and then just using \copy to place it wherever needed? I'd expect that to give a pretty big win, if the same graphics are used many times. JK -------------------------------------------------- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex
